Lockheed Corporation, et al.; Proposed Consent Agreement With Analysis To Aid Public Comment

Résumé

In settlement of alleged violations of federal law prohibiting unfair acts and practices and unfair methods of competition, this consent agreement, accepted subject to final Commission approval, would allow, among other things, the completion of the merger between Lockheed Corporation and Martin Marietta Corporation, to form Lockheed Martin Corporation, but would prohibit the respondents from enforcing exclusivity provisions contained in teaming arrangements that each individual firm now has with infrared sensor producers. The consent agreement also would prohibit certain divisions of the merged firm from gaining access through other divisions to nonpublic information that the respondents' electronics division receives from competing military aircraft manufacturers when providing a navigation and targeting system known as ``LANTIRN'' to competing aircraft producers; or that the respondents' satellite divisions receive from competing expendable launch vehicle suppliers when those competing suppliers launch the respondents' satellites.